Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:31 PM
21st april 2007Day eight.
A brand new day and a whole new week to look forward to. I arrived last Saturday on the 14th of April and it’s almost been a week since my arrival here. I survived one week here. Woohoo! Anyway, the past one week has been difficult for me. missing you guys back home in Singapore and all. But hey, im looking on the brighter side. Its still another 208 days more till I return. School’s starting on the 23rd of april. That’s on Monday and I have a holiday on the 25th of april, they call it anzec day. Don’t ask, I have no idea either whats to that occasion. Woke up really late today at 8.40am cause I slept late the night before. Thanks skittles for keeping me company. Surprisingly, it didn’t cost a single cent for those hours we clocked. The amount still stands at ten dollars. After breakfast was done, I went back to my room and played on the guitar. Not long after, I got called out to the dining area. There on the table was a huge cake with the words ‘happy birthday’ written in chocolate fudge on it. there was also strawberries and plums at the sides with whipped cream as toppings. Feeling totally lost, I wondered to myself on whose birthday they were celebrating then. Mine hasn’t arrived yet. then, grandma took out a candle and placed it on the cake and lit it up. It was then that I realised that the cake was for me as everyone was giving me the attention. I made a wish and blew out the candle after the family sang a birthday song for me. Thanks guys. You made me feel so at home and even went all the way out to get me a cake to celebrate my birthday. I couldn’t ask for more. Thanks! At one, we went out as a family to Westfield carousel shopping mall to do grocery shopping. Bought my lunch for the week to come, pretty much all the sandwich stuff like shredded ham slices, tomatoes and lettuce. I’ve got to start learning to get up early for school and make my own breakfast and lunch to put them inside my lunchbox. The food at the school’s cafeteria is a little on the steep side so I’ll rather make from home. While waiting for Jason and uncle Richard to finish their shopping, I went out on my own and bought a pullover jumper for school. That’s for the cold mornings when I go to school. Its all so soft and woollen inside and its grey in colour HA. Monday lectures all start and I have a full course of all the subjects I take on that day, from accounts, English, maths, economics to chemistry. A full work load for Mondays and only an hours break for lunch. Tuesday and Fridays are my breather days all finishing early by 3pm. But Thursday is crazy. im only done by 5pm and when I catch the bus back home, the sky is dark already. I have got to remind myself to bring the torchlight on that day even though the pathway I walk are all on the highways and lighted up areas. The school hours aint very different from singapore’s one though I start school at only 8.30am for some days and 8.45am on others. But hey, I haven’t counted in the hours I take on bus rides to school daily.
three more days to it.
